Many agent-based systems have been developed over the past decade; however, the security issues are usually not addressed adequately. In order to make the mobile agent paradigm mo...
MapReduce provides a parallel and scalable programming model for data-intensive business and scientific applications. MapReduce and its de facto open source project, called Hadoop...
Prior to 1994, student registration at Newcastle University involved students being registered in a single place, where they would present a form which had previously been filled ...
Mark C. Little, Stuart M. Wheater, David B. Ingham...
This paper proposes a new application framework for group tour guiding services based on RFIDs and wireless sensor network. We consider a sensing field mixed with multiple indepe...
Po-Yu Chen, Wen Tseun Chen, Cheng Han Wu, Yu-Chee ...
Efficient and robust metacomputing requires the decomposition of complex jobs into tasks that must be scheduled on distributed processing nodes. There are various ways of creating...